Which 1935 laws defined Jewish identity and restricted Jewish rights in Nazi Germany?
Answer
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were the 1935 laws that defined Jewish identity and restricted Jewish rights in Nazi Germany.
Announced at the Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg on 15 September 1935, the laws included the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour. They removed full political citizenship from Jews and prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and people classified as German or related blood.
The laws used ancestry, rather than religious belief alone, to classify people. Later regulations expanded the definitions and affected people with Jewish grandparents, including some who did not practice Judaism. The Nuremberg Laws gave legal structure to escalating antisemitic persecution and helped prepare the way for deportation, dispossession, and mass murder.